Putting down the phone, Pamela Mountbatten fell into deep thought. She remembered what her husband had said.

"Private property is inviolable. There is a limit to this. During World War II, the United States forced the United Kingdom to sell British companies in the United States. If you do not have the strength to protect yourself, there will be a second or third time for this kind of thing. Other countries expect no The only one you can count on is the British government."

Pamela Mountbatten's face changed for a while. On the night before leaving London, her man said a lot, which is worth considering carefully, "The wealth in your hands is close to the British capital that was forcibly taken away by the United States during the war. If you If you don’t follow the Lockheed path, you will be targeted sooner or later.”

"Marina, ask if General Wavell, the commander of the British Army in Australia, has time to meet with you." Pamela Mountbatten asked her assistant to make an appointment with the commander of the British Army in Australia who was stationed at the Australian launch site.

At the critical moment, the presence of the garrison reassured the female president who felt that her husband's judgment was reasonable.

General Wavell lived in Perth, and he thought that Marshal Mountbatten's daughter was looking for him to ask about the Cuban missile crisis that was spreading all over the world today, and he had prepared a speech.

He thought too much, Pamela Mountbatten had almost superstitious confidence in her man, "Australia's position will not be attacked by nuclear war, especially Perth, which is outside the range of Soviet nuclear missiles, and the Soviet Union's Intercontinental missiles are all aimed at the United States, so I am not worried at all."

General Wavell was amazed by this answer, "It seems that the daughter of the marshal has an extraordinary understanding of military affairs."

"That's out of the question." Pamela Mountbatten let out a long breath, "On the contrary, the instability in Asia is closely related to Australia, which deserves full concern."

"But even so, the atmosphere in Europe must be more tense than here." General Wavell said with a wry smile, "I think your husband, the executive vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, may be very busy now."

After Kennedy announced the maritime blockade against Cuba, the whole world was shocked, including of course the European countries on the edge of the Soviet Union. The most nervous was not the United Kingdom, but the European front of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany.

Even though Alan Wilson, who learned that the United States was going to launch a naval blockade, still had a face of no panic, and was seriously analyzing the possible reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cabinet Office.

"Sir Wilson is so calm. I don't know if this calmness is based on the fact that your family has already gone to Australia." Burke Trend couldn't help but hum, full of yin and yang.

Alan Wilson replied calmly, "Burke, my wife will go to Perth at this time of year. If there is no crisis this time, nothing will change. Perth has her important industry, so deal with it. Cross-border business is also more convenient, not to mention...there are many people living in Australia now."

The last sentence is not a threat, but the fact that Perth's population growth is mainly due to British immigration. In fact, the birth rate in the UK is not low, but the annual population increase is not large because of continuous immigration.

Especially after Pamela Mountbatten and many aristocrats made their fortunes in Australia, the attractiveness of Australia has doubled. After the Cuban missile crisis this time, it is estimated that the attractiveness of the United Kingdom will increase.

Australia is in the southern hemisphere, and the local environment is very safe and can avoid nuclear war.

Whether it is reasonable or not is not important, as long as British citizens believe in such unscientific statements, they will naturally act on it.

"Then let's continue to discuss the responses of France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Now it is estimated that the two countries are also stunned and shocked. But based on my understanding of the two countries, this time the crisis is over, and the two countries will try to cooperate independently among European countries. So Britain’s attitude does not need to change, we still support the United States, but we don’t need to be too eager, after Germany and France express their views one after another, Britain will appear to support the United States.”

Norman Brook kept nodding, but glanced at Burke Trend, and added, "Alan, you always need a reason to make a decision."

"Of course, sir. In fact, for both countries, the threat of the Soviet Union's Western Cluster is not much less than the threat of nuclear weapons. The British situation is slightly better, but it is the same. In the face of the Soviet Union's overwhelming ground power, The use of nuclear weapons is already a secondary option. We are not the United States!"

"According to the current naval and air forces that the United States can mobilize, it is more than enough to implement a naval blockade."

Alan Wilson took out the layout of the U.S. navy and air force. Of course he has information in this regard, otherwise, wouldn't he be the secretary-general of the Joint Intelligence Committee for nothing?

The United States can assemble more than eight aircraft carriers and a huge fleet of hundreds of warships for the naval blockade against Cuba. This force cannot be broken by the weak Red Navy of the Soviet Union no matter what.

"In the next few days, we will see the United States and the Soviet Union flex their muscles and speak harsh words to each other, but both Washington and Moscow have plenty of time to consider how this crisis that has attracted worldwide attention will end. Naval action is slow after all, why else would we send the Royal Navy to Asia? Right?"

Just like what Burke Trend said, Alan Wilson still has the look of a mountain collapse in front of him without changing his face. When analyzing this matter, he didn't feel nervous at all, as if it was an external matter.

And Burke Trend was right in guessing a little bit. The competitor's family left the UK for Australia, which really made Alan Wilson fearless. He was not even afraid of a nuclear war. If it happened, how many A billion people were buried with him, so why should he be afraid?

"It sounds like France and Germany should have reacted more aggressively than us." Norman Brooke nodded in agreement. "From this point of view, the UK must take a stand after the two countries, so as to appear calm."

Alan Wilson sat down directly, thinking more than that, if it was changed to decades later, Europe's reaction would be even more intense. The big stick of sanctions has already come in its turn, but unfortunately, the more sanctions are imposed, the more it will cover up the cowardice of not daring to end.

If you really think you are strong, you can use military power to speak directly. If you don’t use military power, the more severe the sanctions, it can only mean that you need to use sanctions to cover up your cowardice. The embarrassment is covered up.

It is a pity that the Soviet Union now has its own economic system cycle. The sanctions of NATO countries cannot be said to be useless, but they are indeed useless. If the sanctions cannot be reinvigorated, they can only call for peace.

At this moment, the phone of the Cabinet Office rang, and Norman Brooke's chief private secretary answered the phone, and then reported, "Sir Norman, the Soviet Union accused the US of the blockade policy, and said they would not compromise."

"It's time to show off your muscles!" Alan Wilson shrugged, saying that his conclusion was absolutely correct.

In a short while, the call from No. 10 Downing Street reached the Cabinet Office and the intelligence analysis that the Joint Intelligence Committee needed to prepare to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In a public statement on behalf of the Soviet government, Khrushchev angrily denounced the U.S. naval blockade policy as "an unprecedented act of piracy that is entirely heading towards launching a world nuclear war."

If it was purely a verbal threat, Washington might not have taken it very seriously. But then, the Soviet armed forces began to enter the highest state of combat readiness. All leave canceled, veterans stopped returning to work, several Soviet submarines are missing from US spy satellite images...

Faced with this threat, the United States completed the largest nationwide mobilization since World War II in less than 24 hours: 183 warships including eight aircraft carriers, twelve destroyers and cruisers, and seven submarines A military force composed of 1,000 aircraft and 1,600 missiles surrounded the long and narrow Cuban waters.

In Florida across the Strait, the United States has also assembled 120,000 Army and Marine Corps, including five reorganized divisions.

In the blue Caribbean Sea, on Grand Turk Island, about 300 kilometers away from the eastern coast of Cuba, there is a huge US missile tracking station, which closely monitors every move of ships going to Cuba. The whole of Cuba was surrounded like an iron barrel.

At this time, at the British cabinet meeting, it was being discussed that the United Kingdom would not take a stand until Germany and France did not take a stand.

In the field of public opinion, British public opinion and American public opinion also narrated the incident differently.

American public opinion emphasizes the threat of the Soviet Union to the United States~lightnovelpub.net~ and British public opinion adds the Congolese army commanded by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the battle in Katanga, and the assassination of Tshombe, together with The battle on the roof of the world shaped this chain of conflicts and was the general offensive of the Soviet bloc.

This is definitely not an isolated incident, but a premeditated act to test the strength of the free world. As for why there has been no change in Europe, it is of course that our Europe is too powerful, and we have already made preparations for battle, so that the Soviets dare not go one step further.

"Strange talk, full of gunfire." Alan Wilson, holding his wife's top-up newspaper, made an evaluation in Chinese in Whitehall, but although it is nonsense, the so-called citizens of the free world should not be overestimated in terms of discernment. Especially in the face of this suffocating solemnity, the judgment is greatly reduced.

"Alan, what are you looking at?" Rabo Butler asked curiously when Alan Wilson muttered something he couldn't understand.

"I say, the Minister's opinion!" Allen Wilson put down the newspaper with a smile, "I guess France will make a statement soon. You must know that when the Soviet army enters a state of combat readiness, the first to bear the pressure is Germany and France. France considers itself a big country, and it is affirmative." ahead of the Germans."